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:)happy engineers day to all ...... :)
15th sep every year India celebrates engineers day .. In remembrance of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, the most outstanding Engineer of all times.

but the first engineer known to mankind was IMOTEP
he design and built first pyramids of egypt and hence civil engineering was the first branch of engineering..

The ‘Glass frog’ is commonly found throughout Central and South America. These amphibians, which belong to the family Centrolenidae, have translucent skin on their abdomens, showing off their internal organs. In this image you can see the aspects of the liver and gastrointestinal systems.

PSLV C21 successfully put French remote sensing satellite SPOT 6 and Japanese micro satellite PROITERES in desire orbit

Space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, will make its final ferry flight from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles International Airport. The aircraft is scheduled to depart Sept. 17 for its multi-day journey. The exact timing and path of the ferry flight will depend on weather conditions and operational constraints. Planned low flyovers include areas of Mississippi, New Orleans, Houston, New Mexico, and northern and southern California, en route to Endeavour’s new home at the California Science Center in L.A. Read more about its ferry flight schedule here

Moving the Global Hawk into a hangar at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility shortly after its arrival on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012

It is the 46th anniversary of Star Trek today.
What is your outer space-inspired architecture?

Preps are continuing today for tomorrow's spacewalk on the space station by Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide. This will be Williams' fifth spacewalk and Hoshide's first. Coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET on NASA TV

I apologise for the inconvenience ", US astronaut Neil Armstrong told Indira Gandhi when informed that the Indian Prime Minister had kept awake till 4:30 am to watch him land on the moon on July 20, 1969.

PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN.
Let the world know what we stand for.
There are 3.22 Million Indians in America.
38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians.
34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL employees are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.
You may know some of these facts. These
facts were recently published in a German
Magazine, which deals with
WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
India never invaded any country in her last
100000 years of history.
India invented the Number System.
Aryabhatta invented zero.
The World's first university was established in
Takshila in 700BC.More than 10,500 students from
all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The
University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC
was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India
in the field of education.
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European
languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language
for computer software reported in Forbes magazine,
July 1987.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine
known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine
consolidated Ayurveda 2500 yearsago. Today
Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place
in our civilization.
Although modern images of India often show
poverty and lack of development, India was the
richest country on earth until the time of
British invasion in the early 17th Century.
The art of Navigation was born in the river
Sindh 6000 years ago.
The very word Navigation is derived from
the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
The Word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the
earth to orbit the sun hundreds ofyears before the
astronomer Smart.; Time taken by earth to orbit
the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and
he explained the concept of what is known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the
6th century long before the European mathematicians
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from
India; Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the
11th century ; The largest numbers the
Greeks and the Romans
used were 10 6(10 to the power of 6) whereas
Hindus Used numbers as big as 1053 (10 to the
power of 53) with specific names as Early as 5000 BCE
during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest
used number is Tera 1012(10 to the power of 12).
According to the Gemological Institute of
America, up until 1896,India was the only source for
diamonds to the world.
USA based IEEE has proved what has been a
century-old suspicion in the worldscientifi
community that the pioneer of Wireless
communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
The earliest reservoir and dam forirrigation was
built in Saurashtra. According to Saka King
rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake
called 'Sudarshana'
was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during
Chandragupta Maurya's time.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600
years ago he and health scientists of his time
conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans,
cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary
stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage
of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.
Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep
knowledge of anatomy, etiology, embryology, digestion,
metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found
in many texts.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest
dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians
established Harappan culture in Sindhu
Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
The place value system, the decimal system
was developed in India in 100 BC.
QUOTES ABOUT INDIA:
Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the
Indians, who taught us how to count, without
which no worthwhile scientific discovery could
have been made.
Mark Twain said: India is the cradle of the
human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother
of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great
grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most
structive materials in the history of man are treasured
up in India only.
French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is
one place on the face of earth where all
the dreams of living men have found a home from
the very earliest days when man began the dream
of existence, it is India.
Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said:
India conquered And dominated China culturally
for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single
soldier across her border.
All the above is just the TIP of the iceberg, the
list could be endless. BUT, if we don't see even a
glimpse of that great India in the India That we see
today, it
clearly means that we are not working up to our
Potential and that if we do, we could once
again; be an ever shining and Inspiring country
setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I Hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare
of INDIA.

india
LORD MACAULAY'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 2 FEBRUARY, 1835
"I have travelled across length and breadth or India and I have not seen one person who is beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation

Different kinds of truth: religion, science and fiction
Truth is provisional, shifting, temporary and subjective, and the quest for elucidation is forever incomplete and wholly narrative. Fiction allows scientists to explore reality in the way the day job doesn't allow

The announcement earlier this year of the 'discovery' of the Higgs boson was framed as a quantification of doubt.
Peoples think science is all about discovering the "truth". Scientist David Sloan-Wilson went so far as characterising science as a religion that had truth as its God.
But science is nothing of the kind. "Truth" is a concept that is best left to theologians and philosophers. Science, on the other hand, is better characterised not as a religion, but as a rational process, in which the goal is not the attainment of truth, but the quantification of doubt.
You will recall, I am sure, the recent fuss about the Higgs boson. Scientists didn't "discover" the elusive and misnamed "God Particle" behind my sofa (goodness knows, it's got to be there among the dust, discarded dog chews and odd socks) and say "Aha!" No, the process was framed as a quantification of doubt, in which observations were slowly collated to such a degree that the probability of the Higgs's existence being a fluke was reduced to no more than five furlongs per fortnight. "Truth", you see, is as elusive as that perishing pentasigma'ed particle.
Whatever one's views about God, scientists are (believe it or not) only human, and, being human, never have quite enough data on which to rest conclusions that will be for true all time. Scientific results are provisional, always subject to being modified or even overturned by subsequent events. Today's left-field idea will be tomorrow's fashionable new idea will be next week's orthodoxy will be next year's wisdom so well-received that it barely rates a mention. If one were to write this as a story, one couldn't do better than this belle-lettre by João Ramalho-Santos.
Science, then, is a human activity, and there is merit in describing the scientific process in human terms, as my fellow Occam's Typist Dr J R of Rotherhithe has explored in two novels and a thriving website devoted to "LabLit", the depiction of scientists in literature, not as white-coated drones who talk to one another in formulae, but as real people.
And as for science, so for science writers. For several decades, even centuries, I have been a science writer, and I have written several nonfiction books of a scientific bent. But long ago I felt that I couldn't really call myself a writer if I didn't at least try some fiction, and so Christmas 2005 found me starting a novel. My novel was science fiction – which in its purest form is a literature of ideas, in which ordinary people are placed in extraordinary circumstances and are thereby transformed. My ordinary people were scientists, who are, pace The Big Bang Theory, ordinary people like anyone else, who have to make sense of the wonders and horrors that parade before them by the always inadequate measure of their own knowledge. Some of my people were, in fact, far from ordinary – aliens, with incredible power – but still plagued by self-doubt. Even gods, you see, suffer from Imposter Syndrome.

Tungurahua volcano erupts: Pics
About 110 families have been evacuated from the vicinity of the Tungurahua volcano, which has been spewing molten rock, ash and lava